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2014 will be a common year starting on Wednesday, the 2014 th year of the Common Era(CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations,

the 14th year of the 3rd millennium,

the 14th year of the 21st century,

and the 5th year of the 2010s decade. It is the current year in some parts of Asia and Oceania, but has not yet begun in most parts of the world.

The United Nations designated 2014 as the International Year of Family Farming and Crystallography.

Predicted and scheduled events

January

January 1 – Latvia will officially adopt the euro currency and will become the eighteenth Eurozone country.

February

February 7–23 – The 2014 Winter Olympics will be held in Sochi, Russia.

March

March 27 – Comet Holmes (17P/Holmes) will reachperihelion.

April

April 29 – An annular solar eclipse will occur.

May

May 29 – Faye's Comet will reach perihelion.

June

June 12 – July 13 – The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be held in Brazil.The Sky City skyscraper is planned for completion inChangsha, Hunan, China.

August

August 24 – NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will cross the orbit of Neptune after travelling for over eight years. New Horizons is scheduled to reach its mission target,Pluto, in 2015.

September

September 18 – The Scottish independence referendumwill be held.The first unmanned flight test of NASA's Orionspacecraft is scheduled to be launched.

November

November 9 – The Catalan independence referendumwill be held.

December

December 31 – The United States and the United Kingdom will officially withdraw their troops fromAfghanistan, marking the end of their 13-year involvement in the Afghan Civil War.

Date unknown

Moore's Law of continuous microchip miniaturization is likely to become obsolete in 2014 due to economic constraints.

The International Cometary Explorer, a 1978 NASA solar probe that was repurposed for a mission to explorecomets, will approach Earth for the first time in decades. Unless it is reactivated for a new mission, it has enough propellant to be re-captured in the Earth system and potentially recovered in orbit. It has already been donated to the Smithsonian Institution if it should be returned to Earth intact.

A commercial cure for baldness is predicted to become available.

JAXA's Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission is expected to be launched.

The first commercial products using memristor technology are expected to become available.